Rockets & Propulsion
What ground-launched vehicle carries satellites and astronauts into space?
What is a rocket?
What part of a plane generates the lift that keeps it in the air?
What are wings?
What do we call the Moon in relation to Earth?
What is a natural satellite?
What lightweight metal is commonly used to build airplanes?
What is aluminum?
What private space company was founded by Elon Musk?
What is SpaceX?
Which law of motion says "every action has an equal and opposite reaction"?
What is Newton's Third Law?
Name the four forces acting on a flying aircraft.
What are lift, weight, thrust, and drag?
What famous space telescope, launched in 1990, orbits Earth?
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
What facility uses giant fans to test models for air resistance?
What is an wind tunnel?
Which 1969 NASA mission first landed humans on the Moon?
What is Apollo 11?
What is the common fuel-plus-oxidizer combination burned inside a rocket engine?
What is propellant?
What do we call the sudden loss of lift when a wing's angle is too steep?
What is stall?
What do we call the path a spacecraft follows around a planet?
What strong, lightweight structure uses a honeycomb pattern between two sheets?
What is a honeycomb sandwich?
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
Who is Neil Armstrong?
What is the measure (in seconds) of how efficiently a rocket engine uses fuel called?
What is specific impulse? (Isp)
What is the name of the speed at which an aircraft equals the speed of sound?
What is the name of the region of space where most communication satellites sit, about 36,000 km up?
What is Geostationary/GEO orbit?
What kind of material is used on spacecraft to survive the heat of reentry?
What is a heat shield/ablative thermal protection?
What was the name of the first reusable space shuttle, launched by NASA in 1981?
What was Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-1)?
On a liquid-fueled rocket, what spinning pump sends fuel into the combustion chamber at high pressure?
What is the turbopump?
What dangerous shaking occurs when a wing's vibrations couple with airflow and can tear a wing apart?
What is Flutter?
What is the boundary, 100 km above Earth, often treated as the edge of space?
What is the Kármán line?
What is the simple equation that links force, mass, and acceleration?
What is F=ma (Newton's Second Law)?
What was the call sign of the Apollo 11 lunar module that touched down on the Moon?
What was Eagle?